It's funny to me that one would rate their own takes as "new and possibly controversial". Whatever comes next is read under that light of an author that thinks this about their own thoughts.

And the core point is not even true. They can definitely output novel things that are good - less so but they can and they do. Plenty of examples.

> Thus, the trajectory is either novel or good—based on randomness or based on data—but never both at the same time.

This assumes no possible unexplored path yields good results, or said another way, that none of the random results can be good, which is not true. The whole text seems to try to prove a point decided a-priori rather than make a case based on reality.